Javelina

Chef Alexa Numkena-Anderson’s food draws on her Hopi, Yakama, Cree, and Skokomish heritage while pushing to revise what North American cuisine is understood to encompass. Javelina stands in Portland’s noticeable gap of restaurants serving Indigenous cuisines, but it’s also, outside of any great expectations, a kitchen putting out delicious, considered food on its own terms, from the tepary bean dip, bison steak, and oysters at dinner to the lunch-only “Powwow Burger,” served between two slices of frybread.